IENJINIA At JavaOne (with Spanish Translation)

If you cut your teeth on an Apple or similar computer and learned a bit of Java, you have all you need to help tutor your kids Project IENJINIA has graduated from the Global Education and Learning Community's incubator and is now in the tools for teaching area of the GELC. Read on for more info on this newly graduated project in the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC)

Project IENJINIA[2] will be at JavaOne at the Community Corner at JavaOne 's Vendor Pavilion in the Java.Net Community Corner Booth. The project leaders (who will translate this blog below into Spanish) will be talking about their project and how educators in Mexico are using it. But what is IENJINIA[2]?

What is the first thing you think about when you imagine teaching software development? Games, right? Project IENJINIA[2] emulates an 80's video games console. This is done for two reasons. First, most teenagers are interested in video games. The second is that the emulator is a very simple platform for exploring programming.

Writing software is an abstract and complex activity which makes it a hard to acquire skill. Students shouldn't be forced to deal on top of that with all the complexity of a modern computer system (operating system, compilers, linkers, complex "feature filled" IDEs, etc.). The IENJINIA DevKit is designed to provide a simplified computer on which the student can directly interact with the underlying (simulated) hardware using IPL (IENJINIA Programming Language).